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    total species: 148
    total photos: 500
    total videos: 0
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    1. Mallard (2022-01-17)
    2. Fieldfare (2022-01-17)
    3. Northern Bullfinch (2022-01-17)
    4. Rock Pigeon (2022-01-21)
    5. Horned Lark (2022-03-03)
    6. Snow Bunting (2022-03-03)
    7. Hooded Crow (2022-03-09)
    8. Eurasian Jackdaw (2022-03-18)
    9. Rook (2022-03-18)
    10. Great Tit (2022-03-24)
    11. Tree Sparrow (2022-04-01)
    12. Common Starling (2022-04-01)
    13. Common Goldeneye (2022-04-11)
    14. Common Shelduck (2022-04-11)
    15. Tufted Duck (2022-04-11)
    16. Mute Swan (2022-04-12)
    17. Northern Wheatear (2022-04-12)
    18. Common Oystercatcher (2022-04-21)
    19. Northern Lapwing (2022-04-22)
    20. Great White Egret (2022-04-22)
    21. Smew (2022-04-22)
    22. Black-tailed Godwit (2022-04-22)
    23. Red-Necked Grebe (2022-04-22)
    24. Marsh Sandpiper (2022-04-22)
    25. Black-winged Stilt (2022-04-22)
    26. Common Redshank (2022-04-22)
    27. Pied Avocet (2022-04-22)
    28. White Wagtail (2022-04-22)
    29. Red-crested Pochard (2022-04-22)
    30. Citrine Wagtail (2022-04-22)
    31. Grey Heron (2022-04-22)
    32. Garganey (2022-04-22)
    33. Common Teal (2022-04-22)
    34. Bewick's Swan (2022-04-25)
    35. Whooper Swan (2022-04-25)
    36. Common Crane (2022-04-25)
    37. Bean Goose (2022-04-25)
    39. Great Cormorant (2022-04-25)
    40. Gadwall (2022-04-29)
    41. Common Greenshank (2022-05-02)
    42. Ruff (2022-05-02)
    43. Slavonian Grebe (2022-05-02)
    44. House Sparrow (2022-05-03)
    45. Yellow Wagtail (2022-05-05)
    46. Baraba Steppe Gull (2022-05-05)
    47. Northern Shoveler (2022-05-05)
    48. Common Pochard (2022-05-05)
    49. Wood Sandpiper (2022-05-06)
    50. Little Ringed Plover (2022-05-06)
    51. Dalmatian Pelican (2022-05-06)
    52. Eurasian Whimbrel (2022-05-06)
    53. Little Bustard (2022-05-06)
    54. Siberian Stonechat (2022-05-07)
    55. Terek Sandpiper (2022-05-12)
    56. Temminck's Stint (2022-05-12)
    57. Common Sandpiper (2022-05-12)
    58. Spotted Redshank (2022-05-12)
    59. Great Crested Grebe (2022-05-12)
    60. Ruddy Shelduck (2022-05-12)
    61. Grey Plover (2022-05-12)
    62. Sky Lark (2022-05-13)
    63. Eurasian Hobby (2022-05-14)
    64. Eastern Imperial Eagle (2022-05-14)
    65. Great Spotted Woodpecker (2022-05-17)
    66. Black-headed Gull (2022-05-17)
    67. Spotted Flycatcher (2022-05-18)
    68. Bluethroat (2022-05-18)
    69. Common Kestrel (2022-05-18)
    70. Oriental Turtle Dove (2022-05-18)
    71. Lesser Whitethroat (2022-05-18)
    72. Eurasian Magpie (2022-05-18)
    73. European Golden Oriole (2022-05-18)
    74. Booted Warbler (2022-05-18)
    75. Common Rosefinch (2022-05-18)
    76. Long-eared Owl (2022-05-19)
    77. Common Chiffchaff (2022-05-19)
    78. Greater Ringed Plover (2022-05-21)
    79. Dunlin (2022-05-21)
    80. Red-necked Phalarope (2022-05-21)
    81. Little Stint (2022-05-21)
    82. Bar-tailed Godwit (2022-05-21)
    83. Greenish Warbler (2022-05-22)
    84. Willow Warbler (2022-05-22)
    85. European Bee-eater (2022-05-25)
    86. Barn Swallow (2022-05-25)
    87. Sand Martin (2022-05-25)
    88. Great Reed Warbler (2022-05-27)
    89. Common Whitethroat (2022-05-27)
    90. Common Chaffinch (2022-05-27)
    91. Red-backed Shrike (2022-05-27)
    92. Barred Warbler (2022-05-27)
    93. Yellowhammer (2022-05-27)
    94. Common Quail (2022-05-27)
    95. Eurasian Goldfinch (2022-05-31)
    96. Tree Pipit (2022-06-01)
    97. Ural Owl (2022-06-01)
    98. Black Woodpecker (2022-06-01)
    99. White-Backed Woodpecker (2022-06-01)
    100. Common Sparrowhawk (2022-06-01)
    101. Black Kite (2022-06-03)
    102. Wood Pigeon (2022-06-03)
    103. Common Cuckoo (2022-06-03)
    104. Eurasian Penduline Tit (2022-06-03)
    105. Western Marsh-Harrier (2022-06-03)
    106. Common Tern (2022-06-04)
    107. Eurasian Collared Dove (2022-06-05)
    108. Northern Reed Bunting (2022-06-06)
    109. Black-winged Pratincole (2022-06-06)
    110. Ortolan Bunting (2022-06-06)
    111. White-winged Tern (2022-06-07)
    112. Demoiselle Crane (2022-06-08)
    113. Eurasian Redstart (2022-06-08)
    114. Garden Warbler (2022-06-11)
    115. Common Raven (2022-06-12)
    116. Green Sandpiper (2022-06-20)
    117. Curlew Sandpiper (2022-07-09)
    118. Kentish Plover (2022-07-09)
    119. Greylag Goose (2022-07-11)
    120. Sanderling (2022-07-20)
    121. Black-Necked Grebe (2022-07-20)
    122. Pallid Harrier (2022-07-29)
    123. Eurasian Honey-Buzzard (2022-07-30)
    124. Common Buzzard (2022-07-30)
    125. Eurasian Wigeon (2022-07-30)
    126. Hoopoe (2022-08-04)
    127. White-headed Duck (2022-08-09)
    128. Cetti's Warbler (2022-08-11)
    129. Azure Tit (2022-08-11)
    130. Lesser Spotted Woodpecker (2022-08-11)
    131. Icterine Warbler (2022-08-11)
    132. Merlin (2022-08-17)
    133. Red-throated Pipit (2022-09-01)
    134. Ruddy Turnstone (2022-09-01)
    135. Paddyfield Warbler (2022-09-09)
    136. Lapland Longspur (2022-09-19)
    137. Bearded Tit (2022-09-21)
    138. Blyth's Reed Warbler (2022-09-21)
    139. Steppe Eagle (2022-09-21)
    140. Willow Tit (2022-09-21)
    141. Stock Pigeon (2022-09-28)
    142. Grey Partridge (2022-10-04)
    143. Eurasian Jay (2022-10-07)
    144. Eurasian Siskin (2022-10-27)
    145. Siberian Accentor (2022-10-28)
    146. Long-tailed Rosefinch (2022-10-28)
    147. Bohemian Waxwing (2022-11-10)
    148. Common Redpoll (2022-12-26)

    recent uploads

    2022-12-26. Common Redpoll.

    2022-12-21. Bohemian Waxwing.

    2022-12-10. Eurasian Siskin, Bohemian Waxwing, Mallard.

    2022-11-10. Bohemian Waxwing, Great Spotted Woodpecker, House Sparrow.

    2022-10-31. Long-tailed Rosefinch.

    2022-10-28. Siberian Accentor, Northern Bullfinch, Eurasian Goldfinch.

    2022-10-27. Eurasian Siskin.

    2022-10-24. Greylag Goose.

    2022-10-10. Bewick's Swan.

    2022-10-07. Eurasian Jay, Eastern Imperial Eagle.

    2022-10-04. Grey Partridge.

    2022-09-28. Stock Pigeon.

    2022-09-22. White-Backed Woodpecker.

    2022-09-21. Bearded Tit, Northern Reed Bunting, Blyth's Reed Warbler, Common Chiffchaff, Steppe Eagle, Willow Tit, Mute Swan.

    2022-09-19. Lapland Longspur, Red-throated Pipit, White Wagtail.

    rare birds records


    Squacco Heron (Ardeola ralloides)

    © Andrey Kovalenko
    2026-06-06
    Almaty area, Sorbulak.

    Second registration of the species on Lake Sorbulak. The first was more than 40 years ago, when two birds were discovered among Grey Herons on June 30, 1982 (Erokhov, 1991). According to available data, this is the easternmost point of flight of the yellow heron from its main range.

    Great Snipe (Gallinago media)

    © Vasilii Bastaev
    2026-05-08
    Karakol lake, Mangystau

    The second record of a rare migratory species this season.

    Great Snipe (Gallinago media)

    © Qanatbek Kenzhegulov
    2026-04-14
    Aktau, Mangystau region

    A rare passage species in Kazakhstan. The most recent photographic record in the country was made on 21 April 2022 in the Suzak District of Turkestan Region (Martin Grienenberger; see the website gallery). In Mangystau Region, only two records supported by photographic evidence are known from recent decades of the 21st century: 20–24 May 2009 in the Kenderli area (Neve et al., 2010) and the present observation.

    Northern Wren (Troglodytes troglodytes)

    © Alexandr Fedulin
    2026-03-30

    A new species for the Teniz-Korgalzhinsky region. The first photographic confirmation on the website for the Kazakh Uplands. Recorded on March 28 and 30 in different parts of the village.
    more rarities...

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